110406 - 1849 DORSET/"BLANDFORD" SKELETON DATE STAMP (DT52).

1849 DORSET/"BLANDFORD" SKELETON DATE STAMP (DT52). 1849 envelope Dorchester to Bloxworth House, Dorset with 1d (SG8) lettered EE, just touched at lower right, cancelled "256" in a shade of blue-black and on reverse good part strike of the rare BLANDFORD/+ skeleton style date stamp in blue-green dated OC 13 1849 (DT52). County cat. only records usage of this rare hand stamp in 1849. (Ref 110406).